Supports early-career traditional artists in Appalachian OH, VA, and WV with grants and cohort-based professional development to advance and sustain regional art forms.
Folk & Traditional Arts Experiences Grants support artists and organizations in public-facing folk arts projects that bring Central Appalachian communities together to share skills and cultural knowledge.
Living Traditions: Folk Arts Project Support for Individual Artists supports artists through learning opportunities, specialized equipment, and services to develop folk arts skills and create folk art projects.
Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeships supports intermediate-level artists studying with community master artists to build traditional art skills and sustain traditions whose transmission has weakened.
Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant supports Kentucky traditional artists mentoring less experienced community artists to pass on skills and cultural knowledge and sustain living traditions.